PeerVPN

2018/07/18

I came across PeerVPN fairly recently, via the
RadioTux podcast in the
April 2018 edition,
and afterwards spent some time doing a setup. I must say that it’s
a very nice tool. I’ve used OpenVPN for a long time to set up private
VPNs linking various servers and systems I use. PeerVPN offers two
principal advantages over the traditional setup:

Some resiliance to the loss of a server, doesn’t depend on a core machine

Packets are not all routed through the central server, so if you’ve machines that are local to each other, they can talk directly

For me, the second is the key advantage. It means that the network
speed between machines on my home network is very close to optimal,
while still having the advantage of being able to use consistent
addressing and a network that includes both home network machines and
remote servers.

Links

Anyway, rest of this post is a collection of links/documentation that I don’t want to lose, might also be helpful to someone else